David Ennis, also known as David Shearing, is a convicted mass murderer and pedophile responsible for the brutal killings of the Johnson-Bentley family in 1982 at Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The nation was horrified by the senseless act of violence that took the lives of six innocent people, including two young children aged 13 and 11, while the family was on a camping trip. 

The next parole hearing is set to take place in August 2026, and it is crucial that we collectively urge the Parole Board of Canada to ensure that Ennis remains behind bars. Public safety must remain the foremost concern. The risk associated with granting him parole far outweighs any argument for his potential rehabilitation.

In August 1982, David Ennis, known at the time as David Shearing, lurked in the bushes and watched while three generations of a family were enjoying time together, waiting for his opportunity to attack. David Ennis (aka David Shearing) snuck into their camp while the adults sat around the campfire after a day of fishing and exploring the outdoors together. It was then that he shot dead the grandparents of the two young girls, George and Edith Bentley along with their parents Bob and Jackie Johnson, while the girls were inside their tent for the night. His sole motivation for committing these murders was so he could have full access to the two Johnson daughters - Janet, age 13, and Karen, age 11 - for purpose of fulfilling his sexual fantasies of rape, molestation and torture. He held the girls captive for up to one week and then murdered them in cold blood as well. David Ennis (aka David Shearing) then put the bodies of those two little girls in the trunk of the family car that also held the bodies of the four murdered adults in the back seat, drove the car to an area in the woods, and set the car on fire in an attempt to cover his tracks - leaving the bodies nearly unidentifiable.

If day parole  were granted, he would be allowed to live in a halfway house, potentially in your city or neighbourhood. If full parole were granted, he would be allowed to live among us in our community and around our children.

David Shearing, who changed his name many years ago to David Ennis, was denied parole in 2008 and again in 2012 for numerous issues, including diagnosis of psychopathy. In 2010, 2014 and 2016, he waived his right and opted out of his legislated parole review. In 2021, through your overwhelming support in helping us get over 101,000 signatures, he was again denied both day and full parole. After 43 years, this has not diminished the fear of the threat he would pose to surviving family and friends and society as a whole if ever released back into the community. 

Please sign this petition and share it to support keeping this monster behind bars.